Wedding: Welcome Dinner Design!

Early on I knew that I wanted a Rhode Island type theme for our welcome dinner. PB and I invited 130 people to the dinner, all family and bridal party, and it was important to us to greet them properly! What better way than with a dressy summer barbeque type night??? We hired our friends who DJed our engagement party, arranged it with the hotel, and decided on a beach theme. The beach theme soon turned into a small R.I. theme!

My SIL (sister in law) designed the awesome centerpieces for the tables. They were easy to do but look great! She took a hurricane vase, filled it with sand and seashells, and added a pretty pillar candle covered in some fun beachy stuff. Along with some votives from the venue and these fun tablecloth overlays, we had a gorgeous set up! It was cheap too! Oh, and we had starfish on the tables! Well, we are supposed to at least. I am writing this before the wedding for your reading pleasure while I am soaking up the sun in Bora Bora. Jealous much???

Here are the centerpieces!

And here are the placecards that we bought! My SIL found these super cute adirondack chairs and then designed pretty place cards for them!!! We did a seating assignment since we had invited so many people and only had the exact number of tables. I am happy we did it bc we got to buy the pretty chairs!!! Here’s the practice setup:

PB and I will each have our own chair with a picture of us in that big frame on the left:

I hope that everything we planned for the welcome dinner went the way it was supposed to go! Next up… the menu!!!